Research Paper on:
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot and Frederik L. Rusch's Critique of the Poem

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Philosophers, theologians and social scientists have been unable to draw any conclusions sufficient to satisfy everyone, so the conflict continues, and has become an even more complex issue. During  the early twentieth century, particularly following World War I, the world was a more uncertain place than it had ever been before. Technology seemed to reign supreme, and although  it was man who had created it in the first place, it seemed to control him more than vice-versa. As a result, man began to question whether or not  the human experience had any real meaning or was merely an exercise in repetition. The poetry of T.S. Eliot often examined the dark forces which often influenced man, and  in one of his earliest efforts, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," the twentieth-century man is portrayed as meandering through the cesspool of his urban existence, with little direction  or motivation. Life is changing at a feverish pace, and man is often left lost in the shuffle. Eliot seems to assert that despite the certainty of time,  nothing else is certain except mans indecision: "And indeed there will be time / For the yellow smoke that slides along the street, / Rubbing its back upon the  window-panes; / There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; / There will be time to murder and  create, / And time for all the works and days of hands / That lift and drop a question on your plate; / Time for you and time for me,  / And time yet for a hundred indecisions / And for a hundred visions and revisions / Before the taking of a toast and tea" (Eliot 1370-1371, lines 23-34).